‘The Dáil, which is the ultimate theatre of our democracy, has been reduced by the political parties to being just a rubber stamp’, writes Lucinda Creighton

No one should fear the truth, but the story must be looked at fully, writes David Quinn

Paris does not offer the outcome radicals wanted, writes Paul Keenan

The Church teaches that every creature has its origins in God, writes Cathal Barry

We can never be challenged too strongly with regards to being committed to social justice. A key, non-negotiable summons that comes from Jesus himself is precisely the challenge to reach out to the poor, to the excluded and to those whom society deems expendable. Therefore, the huge, global issues of justice should preoccupy us. Can…

After weeks of reading articles and watching programmes about it, I visited the refurbished St Mel’s cathedral in Longford last Sunday afternoon. Crowds were still pouring through its doors, weeks after the official reopening. The addresses in the visitors’ book revealed that many had travelled quite a distance to be there. That’s no surprise, the…

‘There’s too often a lazy, knee-jerk prejudice in the media against fee-paying schools’, writes Cathal Barry

‘The Church in the North, far from occupying a position of prestige, was the subject of deep suspicion by the political elite’, writes Michael Kelly